Break-ins and car theft in every Canadian city, 2025

280 police services covering 33.7 million people, with ten years of history and the share of cases police solve. Pick a city size and a province, then compare.

Published October 31, 2026. Data year 2025, from Statistics Canada.

−41%Drop in Canada's break-in rate in ten years, from 447 to 264 per 100,000 people (2015 to 2025).
3.2×York Region's car theft rate in 2023 compared with 2019. It has since fallen to 162 per 100,000, still above where it started.
2.8%Share of thefts from vehicles that police solved in Canada in 2025. For car thefts it was 11%, and for break-ins 20%.

Every city, ranked

Rates are incidents per 100,000 people. “Solved” is the share of incidents police cleared, by charge or otherwise. A badge means the rate is clearly above or below Canada's, beyond what chance would explain.

RankCity2015–2025

    More crime, fewer cases solved

    Each circle is a city in the group you picked above, sized by population. Further right means a higher rate; lower down means police solved a smaller share. The dashed lines are Canada's figures. Hover or tap a circle.

    The car theft wave

    Car thefts per 100,000 people in Canada's 25 largest police services. Around Toronto and Montreal, car theft rose two to three times between 2019 and 2023, then fell. In Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver it peaked years earlier. Pick a city to follow its line.

    Selected cityCanadaOther large cities

    Biggest changes in ten years

    What this means for your home and car

    • Most break-ins and car thefts are never solved, so recorded video is often the only evidence that gets a case anywhere. Store footage off the device, so it survives if a camera is taken.
    • Thefts from cars are the least solved crime here. A parked-mode dash cam records the car while you are away; check it is set to record on motion before you rely on it.
    • Car theft rates moved more than break-ins did in the past five years. If your city's line rose, a steering lock and a key pouch that blocks the signal are low-cost layers.
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    Data and citation

    MkaeSense (2026). Break-ins and car theft in every Canadian city, 2025. https://mkaesense.com/pages/break-ins-car-theft-canada. Data: Statistics Canada, Tables 35-10-0177-01 and 35-10-0178-01 to 35-10-0185-01.

    Free to reuse for non-commercial purposes with credit to MkaeSense and a link to this page (CC BY-NC 4.0). For commercial use, see the data licence. Contains information licensed under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.

    Method and limits

    • Figures are police-reported incidents for each municipal police service, including RCMP detachments that police a municipality. Services covering fewer than 10,000 people, rural RCMP units and provincial police units are not listed.
    • Break-ins include homes, businesses and other buildings; Statistics Canada does not split them. Car thefts are all motor vehicle thefts.
    • Population is the population Statistics Canada used to compute each rate. Surrey's RCMP and municipal police figures for 2025 are combined, because policing moved between them.
    • “Solved” is incidents cleared in 2025 divided by incidents in 2025. Some cases cleared in 2025 began in earlier years, so it is an approximation. It is shown only where a city had at least 30 incidents.
    • The above or below badge uses an exact 95% Poisson interval (Byar's method) around each city's count, compared with the count Canada's rate would give.
    • About half of household break-ins are reported to police, according to Statistics Canada's 2019 General Social Survey, so every rate here is an undercount.

    All calculations are by MkaeSense. MkaeSense is not affiliated with Statistics Canada or any police service.